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Paul Romer on testing our way out of COVID

The latest episode of our coronavirus crisis podcast features Paul Romer. Romer received, along with William Nordhaus, the Nobel Prize in economics in 2018. We spoke with him about his recent, viral Wall Street Journal piece arguing that massive testing is our way out of the COVID crisis, his vision for getting testing in the U.S. up to scale, and why America often loses the first battle in times of crisis but goes on to win the war.